Make things better than they have to be..

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history..

Where music leads, I follow..

The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it..

If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned..

When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication….

Life's all about 'me' anyway.

I'm happy and at peace with where I am at life..

God never leads anyone anywhere for money..

You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that's one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that I play jazz to entertain the lis….

Let yourself become living poetry..

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts..

Don't say anything about this to anybody. Any one would say that I am trying to play the good-natured philosopher. I am neither benefactor nor philos….

There's something Vichy about the French..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great thea….

Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less likely to. ….

The autodecrement is not magical..

Andrea Jaeger plays tennis like she's double-parked..

You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future..

Do not call up any that you can not put down..